The death of Dick Cheney, who wielded vast power as U.S. vice president, occasioned a wave of commentary and commemorations — with particular interest in the fate of his legacy in the face of rapid political change. For decades, Cheney was “the ultimate GOP insider,” my colleague Karen Tumulty writes, a Washington power broker often caricatured as the shadowy puppet master looming over President George W. Bush’s two terms. But in his final years, he found himself and his politics on the other side of a schism with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement that had captured and reshaped the Republican Party.
